I'm not sure how /dev/hda4 would lead to /mnt/gentoo unless it's still mounted. Did you do anything at all after restarting your computer before typing in mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda4?_________________Gentoo PPC FAQ: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml

Nope, I restart it and on the bell I hold down c and it goes to a welcome message and on the command line it says "boot:" which I just hit enter and then it says "Please wait, loading kernel" and then it just go through all this loading until it gets to the command line for the livecd (that says "livedcd root #:") where I type in what you tell me to.

Do you have anything that you need to save on this disk (including OSX partitions)? If not, please try this.

Reboot again. Once you're at the console type:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

This will remove any x86 partitions on the disk

Code:

mac-fdisk /dev/hda

This will start mac-fdisk. In mac-fdisk, type i to initialize the partition. This will *erase* all of the partitions on the disk.
Create the 4 basic partitions for a linux install as outlined in the handbook.

I have a problem with the clock on an iBook G4. The problem is since on day the Hardware clock reported the date 1.1.1904.
So i have use the date command to set the system clock to an actually date and then i set in the /etc/conf.d/clock the option that he write the system time to hardware clock.The problem is that when the iBook is off the clock not run...so the next reboot the date stand on the time when the iBook was turned off.